This is a web browser-based electronic book collection of
Life Histories of North American Birds,
selected from the hundreds of species biographies
assembled and written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and his
collaborators and published in a twenty-one volume series
between 1919 and 1968 by the United States Government
Printing Office. It is strongly recommended that users begin by reading
About Us and our
Mission
statement, which explain the concept of this work and place the chapters included in context.